Courting the prolife vote
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
By Bryan Cones
Comments (4)
With news of Bristol Palin's pregnancy--at five months, it could hardly have been a secret to anyone--the presidential race is acquiring a stranger-than-fiction feel. What I've found funniest is the way the media has been running to every Christian conservative leader to ask what they "think about" the pregnancy of the GOP's VP candidate's unmarried teenage daughter. How many permutations of "we're glad she's keeping the child" are there?
What's really interesting is how the issue of abortion has asserted itself once again, with a candidate who chose to deliver a baby with Down's syndrome when many people choose not to, and a teenage daughter expecting in just four months, with the expectation that she and the baby's father will marry (though that remains to be seen).
And the big question: How is all this going to play out among religious voters?
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Sarah Palin is against
By Nancy Davis (not verified) on Sunday, September 7, 2008Sarah Palin is against exposing young people to birth control methods, yet her chastity only advocacy did not work for her daughter. Bristol is to be commended for carrying her child to term, but should not be used as any kind of "poster child." What I find disturbing is that "pro-life" advocates do not profess this attitude when it comes to killing pregnant women and their babies in bombing attacks. Also, I do not think that "pro-choice" should be considered synonymous with "pro-abortion."
Greetings, The first part of
By Timothy (not verified) on Monday, September 8, 2008Greetings,
The first part of your first sentence is not true. Second part of first sentence needs to be changed from chastity only to abstinence until marriage to be true. Bombing attacks at abortion mills are extremely rare. So, it is an invalid analogy to compare those who bomb to those who do not, as those who do not comprise 99.99% of the pro-life community. If you are open to the possibility that you can have an abortion if you want to, then you are for or pro-abortion. One cannot deny the fact that they are actually open to the possibility of stopping a human life from being in existence, by their possible decision to have an abortion, by claiming that they are merely just open to that possibility. It does not make sense. Conversely, I, for one, am glad to be called anti-choice.
Timothy+
Timothy, I think she was
By Timaree (not verified) on Monday, September 22, 2008Timothy, I think she was referring to the bombing of Iraqis. Too many innocents have died in this war that the Christian Right seems to think is a good thing.
Oh dear. That didn't come
By Timaree (not verified) on Tuesday, September 23, 2008Oh dear. That didn't come out right. I meant they think we were right in going to war not that they think it's right to kill the innocent people over there.
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